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Third Time Fatal
It was supposed to be a happy day.
But when Philipa Lowe arrives at the wedding of her childhood friend Heather she finds the wedding postponed, the bride in tears, the groom missing.
Philipa begins a desperate search to find the reluctant groom.
Arriving at his home, she draws back the covers of his bed to find a body. That of a naked, female corpse.
Meanwhile, the groom returns and the couple are wed in Philipa’s absence.
At the airport, Martin is arrested.
But the charge is not murder...
Where was Martin on the night before his wedding, and who was the woman found in his bed?
In order to protect her close friend’s marriage, Philipa must get close to the suspect to uncover his past, and prove his innocence.
But how close?
And could this be third time fatal?
‘Third Time Fatal’ is a gripping crime thriller that is perfect for fans of Nikki French and Peter Robinson.
Praise for Roger Ormerod:
‘The story gallops along with an irresistible momentum...always fascinating...the shape is near perfect. The characterisation is splendid, the situations dramatic and compelling, the style economic and energetic. What more can a book offer, or a reader ask?’ - Reginald Hill
"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times
"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator,
"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method” Times Literary Supplement
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels - some 35 in all - which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction, as he did with his hobbies of painting and photography.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
But when Philipa Lowe arrives at the wedding of her childhood friend Heather she finds the wedding postponed, the bride in tears, the groom missing.
Philipa begins a desperate search to find the reluctant groom.
Arriving at his home, she draws back the covers of his bed to find a body. That of a naked, female corpse.
Meanwhile, the groom returns and the couple are wed in Philipa’s absence.
At the airport, Martin is arrested.
But the charge is not murder...
Where was Martin on the night before his wedding, and who was the woman found in his bed?
In order to protect her close friend’s marriage, Philipa must get close to the suspect to uncover his past, and prove his innocence.
But how close?
And could this be third time fatal?
‘Third Time Fatal’ is a gripping crime thriller that is perfect for fans of Nikki French and Peter Robinson.
Praise for Roger Ormerod:
‘The story gallops along with an irresistible momentum...always fascinating...the shape is near perfect. The characterisation is splendid, the situations dramatic and compelling, the style economic and energetic. What more can a book offer, or a reader ask?’ - Reginald Hill
"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times
"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator,
"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method” Times Literary Supplement
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels - some 35 in all - which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction, as he did with his hobbies of painting and photography.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2003
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Roger Ormerod
85 books9 followersRoger Ormerod was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. He worked as a county court officer, an executive officer in the Department of Social Security, a postman, and a shop loader in an engineering factory.
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February 22, 2022
Somehow, I’m the first person to actually review this book, even though, like all of Endeavor Press offerings, it’s been around for ages. Ormerod is one of the more reliable old-timey authors and this is a fairly entertaining if overly long for its plot tale of nuptials gone awry and the subsequent investigation of the broom.
The protagonists are a pair of not-quite-married sleuths, she’s a talented amateur, he’s a former policeman. It is her friend who is getting married, a woman so obnoxious, annoying, and tedious, that you can’t possibly bring yourself to care about her fate. This woman, though has money and, at long last (and no small wonder why) love, though her dearly beloved, a local mechanic, might not be the standup guy she thinks he is. Not that she cares, she’s too enamored. She’s totally down to be bigamously married to a man with a wed-and-ditch checkered past whose ex has recently been found in his bed naked and dead. She’ll even pay off one of his other no-quite-wives for the privilege. Pathetic, sure, but there she is, made fool by love.
And now it is up to her ever kind and understanding friend and her man to help her sort this mess she finds herself in.
Somewhat convoluted, somewhat drawn out, but overall entertaining enough and reads fairly quickly.
The protagonists are a pair of not-quite-married sleuths, she’s a talented amateur, he’s a former policeman. It is her friend who is getting married, a woman so obnoxious, annoying, and tedious, that you can’t possibly bring yourself to care about her fate. This woman, though has money and, at long last (and no small wonder why) love, though her dearly beloved, a local mechanic, might not be the standup guy she thinks he is. Not that she cares, she’s too enamored. She’s totally down to be bigamously married to a man with a wed-and-ditch checkered past whose ex has recently been found in his bed naked and dead. She’ll even pay off one of his other no-quite-wives for the privilege. Pathetic, sure, but there she is, made fool by love.
And now it is up to her ever kind and understanding friend and her man to help her sort this mess she finds herself in.
Somewhat convoluted, somewhat drawn out, but overall entertaining enough and reads fairly quickly.
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